Through mid-August, Gone Astray stood alone atop Florida’s freshman sire list with four winners, including two stakes winners, and progeny earnings of $311,713 from 12 starters. Nationally, he ranked third among freshman sires, behind only champion Uncle Mo and Twirling Candy, and he was the second-leading juvenile sire overall in Florida to another Dixie Union stallion, High Cotton (Ocala Stud), who had twice as many runners.
Prominent Kentucky breeder Kathryn Martin West died Tuesday in her Midway, Ky. residence at age 91. West and her late husband, Robert Smiser West, developed Waterford Farm in Midway, Ky., into a leading commercial breeding and consignment operation, breeding most of their horses in partnership with Hall of Fame trainer MacKenzie Miller and his wife Martha.
Freud has been a dominant sire in New York for the better part of the last decade, and that dominance was clearly showcased in the Statue of Liberty division of the New York Stallion Series on Aug. 13 at Saratoga Race Course. The filly Freudie Anne led home a parade of finishers for the stallion, who swept the superfecta.
Goofed’s family has gone in interesting directions in the 50 years since she retired, and it resurfaced again at Saratoga last weekend when fifth- generation descendant Cavorting, by Bernardini, captured the Grade 1 Test.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Big Blue Kitten, the favorite for Saturday’s Arlington Million, will stand at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Ky., upon his retirement from racing.
The Saratoga meet is traditionally a coming-out party for juvenile stars of the East Coast. WinStar Farm sire Bellamy Road came to that party in a big way, as DRF's SirePowered Results shows that he was represented by two maiden special weight winners at the historic track recently.
The Jockey Club projected the 2016 North American registered Thoroughbred foal crop at 22,500 on Saturday. If the projection holds true, it would mark the first year-to-year growth in the North American foal crop since 2005.
Multiple Group 1 winner Al Kazeem will return to stud for the 2016 breeding season after being retired due to a suspensory branch injury.
Afleet Alex was among the most celebrated juveniles of the 2004 Saratoga meeting. Just over a decade later, the Gainesway sire is off to a solid start at this summer's meet. Daily Racing Form’s SirePowered Results shows him with two winners at the meet to date, led by Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes victor Texas Red.
Epiphaneia, winner of the 2014 Japan Cup, has been retired from racing and will begin his stallion career at Shadai Stallion Station in Hokkaido, Japan in 2016.
